Part_of_King_George_III_Sound,_on_the_South_Coast_of_New_Holland,_December_1801.jpg
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painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
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Part of King George III Sound, on the South Coast of New Holland, December 1801 by William Westall . Painted between 1809 and 1812 under Admiralty commission, it is a 61 x 86.5 cm oil-on-canvas painting. It is part of the Ministry of Defence Art Collection. It depicts King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia . Specifically, it is a view looking north-north-west from Peak Head , across Torndirrup and Vancouver Peninsula towards the mainland. The people in the foreground are Australian Aborigines , stylised according to the noble savage tradition. The shrub on the left is Macrozamia riedlei ; the shrub in the centre is Banksia verticillata . The tree just right of centre is a Eucalyptus ; on the right is the grass-tree Kingia australis , then a group of Xanthorrhoea preissii grass-trees. This painting is based on Westall's field sketch King George's Sound, View from Peak Head , and was itself the basis of the engraving View from the south side of King George's Sound . |
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between 1809 and 1812
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1809-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1812-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Source/Photographer | Cropped from the ebook version of Findlay, Elizabeth (1988) Arcadian Quest , available online at www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/Arcadian%20Quest.pdf. The Arcadian Quest acknowledge the image as obtained from transparency provided by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. | ||||||
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